671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius.

We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, - blown and flared by passion's storm, - and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.

I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That he will not torture the forgiving. Upon that rock I stand. That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.